Charlotte, NC (PRWEB) June 11, 2012
The food poisoning attorneys at Marler Clark, The Food Safety Law Firm, along with Ashville law firm Roberts & Stevens, have filed a Salmonella lawsuit in Iredell County. The lawsuit, the third Salmonella-related suit filed by the two firms in 2012 [1,2], was filed on behalf of a North Carolina couple who allegedly became ill with Salmonella infections after consuming food at Mooresville-based Lancaster?s BBQ.
According to a complaint (#12CVS01420) filed in Iredell County Superior Court, Charlie and Carrie Nivens ate at Lancaster?s BBQ on December 31, 2011. In the following days and weeks, the couple developed severe symptoms indicative of a Salmonella infection. By January 5, Mrs. Nivens? symptoms became so severe that she had to be treated at the ER, where she submitted a stool sample that tested positive for Salmonella. Attorneys for the plaintiffs allege that the Iredell County Health Department, along with the North Carolina State Public Health Laboratory, concluded that between Christmas 2011 and New Year?s Day 2012, a Salmonella Enteritidis outbreak occurred among Lancaster BBQ customers.
This lawsuit marks the first of four Salmonella-outbreak situations North Carolina residents have seen this year. Between February and May, a Salmonella Paratyphi B outbreak centered in Buncombe County sickened at least 88 people and was linked to contaminated tempeh produced by Ashville-based Smiling Hara Tempeh. In May, the Mecklenburg County Health Department announced that a 15-person Salmonella Enteritidis outbreak was linked to Toast Caf
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